In this page, you can find what can be considered either a long CV or a summary of some relevant experiences I had so far. If you want a more synthetic/professional CV, can download the pdf version of my CV.


Career Profile

Currently a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics of LSE, under the supervision of Dr Peter Allen and Dr Ahmad Abdi.

Studies

PhD Student in the Dept. of Mathematics of LSE

2020 - Present

Broadly speaking, the topic of my PhD is Graph Theory, at the moment I am mainly working on Ramsey Theory.

MSc Student at ETH Zürich

GPA 5.8/6 cum laude
2018-2020

During my MSc, my focus shifted to Discrete Mathematics. In particular, I followed courses in graph theory, algebraic and probabilistic methods in combinatorics, and I also completed various related projects under the supervision of Prof. Benny Sudakov and Prof. Valentin Féray. I wrote my Master Thesis about Nešetřil's Pentagon Conjecture under the supervision of Prof. Benny Sudakov and Dr Stefan Glock.

BSc Student at Pisa University

GPA 110/110
2015 - 2018

During my Bachelor, I focused mainly on Probability Theory. I wrote my Bachelor thesis under the supervision of Prof. Franco Flandoli.

Skills

Besides mathematics, there are some other things I enjoy doing (with various levels of success). I listed here some of them.

Programming - Python, C++, C, Matlab. Also on Codeforces!
Programming language was the first exam I passed in my Bachelor, and since then I always enjoyed programming. During my BSc and MSc, I acquired some familiarity with C and Matlab and I believe I can program at an intermediate level using these languages. Moreover, recently I have been interested in learning C++ and Python and therefore I started an independent project in which I try to write some tools using these languages. I also regularly take part in Codeforces competitions.

Similar to Programming - LaTeX, HTML.
Even if it cannot be considered a programming language, I am proficient in Latex (you can find on this website many examples) and I created this webpage in HTML starting from Xiaoying Riley's template.

Languages - Italian, English, Spanish.
I am a native Italian speaker. In July 2018 I passed an IELTS exam with a grade of 8.0/9.0 and therefore at that time my English level was already proficient. Since then, I studied a MSc course taught and examined entirely in English and I have been doing a PhD in London; therefore I do believe my English level has improved substantially. I have been studying Spanish since Dec 2021. I have a basic understanding of German, but I cannot be considered independent in this language. I am planning on learning French next.

Experiences

I had the chance to do some extracurricular activities. You can find here a selection of those which have been more important for me. GTA stands for Graduate Teaching Assistant

Teaching

GTA for MA210: Discrete Mathematics @ LSE

Jan 2022-Apr 2022

GTA for MA103: Introduction to Abstract Mathematics @ LSE

Sep 2021-Apr 2022

GTA for MA423: Fundamentals of Operations Research @ LSE

Sep 2021-Dec 2021

Lecture Moderator for FM250: Finance @ LSE

Aug 2021

GTA for ME306: Real Analysy @ LSE

Jul 2021

GTA for MA103: Introduction to Abstract Mathematics @ LSE

Sep 2020-Apr 2021

I had the honour of being GTA for many LSE courses; I assisted courses both of the Dept of Maths and the Dept of Finance. As stated above, I can forward the feedbacks I received if requested.

Other Working Experiences

Subwarden at Bankside House for LSE

Sep 2021-Sep 2022

Internship at PigeonLine (Report)

Aug 2021

Member of the Operations Team @ ETH Entrepreneur Club

Sep 2019-Mar 2020

As a member of the Operations team, my general task was to facilitate the work of the startups that were hosted in our space. As a part of this task, I helped both in the everyday organization of the common spaces e.g. providing supplies (both technical and non) for the startups and in the general management of the ETH Entrepreneur Club e.g. assessment of the startup's projects.

Projects

In the course of my studies, I worked on many projects. Here you can find a quick presentation of the main ones.

Dota ranking - Recently, I have been working with Simone Brutti from Sorbonne on an algorithm that allows ranking Dota players. We have been focusing on an algorithm that allows us to estimate the strength of a player given only a few games played within a relatively small group. This is a work in progress.

MSc Thesis - Completed under the supervision of Prof. Benny Sudakov and Dr Stefan Glock. I worked independently on Nešetřil's Pentagon Conjecture, trying to modify a local method by DeVos and Šámal to yield an approximation of the conjecture.

BSc Thesis - Under the supervision of Prof. Franco Flandoli I examined some known results about the Hausdorff dimension of the Brownian motion. The main result reported is Kaufman's doubling theorem.

Reading Course - Project completed under the supervision of Prof. Valentin Féray. Integral reading of a book by R.P. Stanley about Algebraic Combinatorics and report about the Sperner Property of Young's Tableaux.

Semester Paper - Project completed under the supervision of Prof. Benny Sudakov and Dr Istvan Tomon. I worked independently on finding a separator theorem for ordered graphs avoiding ordered subgraphs.

Free time

I sometimes find time to follow some hobbies of mine.

Chess & Go - I am a very passionate but quite terrible chess player; I enjoy playing go as well, even if I do not find often the occasion to play the latter. Please feel free to write to me if you are interested in playing a game.

Reading - I am an avid reader. I am mainly interested in Italian literature (I. Calvino and P. Levi before the others) but I also enjoy fantasy (N. Novik is my favourite lesser-known fantasy writer) as well as other genres.

Photography - I am a long time lover, novice practitioner of photography. I am the proud owner of a Sony camera. I am planning on adding some of my pictures to this page.

Cooking - I enjoy cooking, and I like to think that I am a decent cook. I prefer traditional Italian cuisine, but I also love some Japanese and French dishes.

Sports - I am a runner by vocation. I participated in the 2019 SOLA relay race in Zurich. I love long-distance running even I do not find as much time as I would like to run regularly.